Animal Experiments: Dogs

Home Office written question – answered at on 23 July 2020.

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Photo of Alex Sobel Alex Sobel Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019, what the legislative requirements were that satisfied in relation to the 252 procedures conducted on dogs to satisfy other legislation; and what tests were conducted in for those requirements.

Photo of Victoria Atkins Victoria Atkins The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

With reference to the report entitled Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2018, published in July 2019 the 252 procedures conducted on dogs to satisfy other legislation were for the routine production of blood-based products. The products under these licences were supplied to other researchers for use in basic and translational research work such as drug development.

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